Rest for cigarettes, cigars, and pipes



J. J. HARKINS REST FOR CIGARETTES, CIGARS, AND PIPES Sept 1, 1953 2Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed July .19, 1949 ATTORNEY Sept. 1, 1953 J. J. HARKINS2,650,595

REST FOR CIGARETTES, CIGARS, AND PIPES Filed July 19. 1949 2Sheets-Sheet 2 AAAAAA IIH - Jizmesllfarkp'lzs.

ATTORNEY INVENTOR Patented Sept. 1, 1953- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEREST roa CIGARETTES, CIGARS, AND PIPES James J. Harkins, Wheeling, W.Va. Application July 19, 1940, Serial No. 105,609

2 Claims. 1

The present invention relates to a smokers safety appliance for cigars,cigarettes and pipes. It is an object of the invention to provide a saferest for lighted cigars or cigarettes formed from a single blank ofmaterial readily bendable to accommodate the blank for use separately orin combination with many different types of receptacles, such as dishes.pans, jars, drinking glasses and the like.

Another object is to provide a compound device constructed to serve as arest for cigars and cigarettes of any length and to further serve as abrace or stall for smoking pipes.

A further object is to provide a novel rest for cigarettes and cigarsadapted to be hygienically packaged for individual use in public places,whereby the usual germ infected rest of public ash trays need not beused and instead the present novel rest may be folded and mountedtemporarily upon an available support.

Still a further object is to provide an inexpensive, non-breakablesmokers rest adapted for mass production by simple stamping, cutting orpunching operations.

The many uses and advantages of the present invention will be moreapparent after reading the following description with reference to theaccompanying drawings, which illustrate several applications or uses ofthe invention.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing the present invention set up foruse in a tray or dish.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the device illustrated inFig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the same form of the invention, but showinghow it may be used to serve as a pipe stall.

Fig. 4 shows a general plan view of a pattern of a blank such as may beformed into the structure of the rest shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3.

Fig. 5 is a longitudinal view of the invention positioned to serve as arest for cigars instead of the cigarettes shown in the precedingfigures.

Fig. 6 is a side perspective view of the invention applied to anordinary drinking glass.

Fig. 7 is a top plan view of the invention as applied to the drinkingglass.

Referring in detail to the drawings and first with reference to Fig. 4,the present invention is shown in its unfolded blank form. It comprisesa single strip H) of bendable material such as light weight metal or anyother suitable fire resistant material. The strip I0 is scolloped alongeach top and bottom longitudinal edge to spectively. As may be observedfrom the drawings, either edge may be positioned uppermost after thestrip II] has been folded into cigar or cigarette supporting position.

The rests H and I2 are each formed with little dips or sumps l3 toprovide for the free flow of air below the cigarettes or cigars, thuspreventing scorching and collection of moisture on the undersidethereof.

From the material of the blank strip l0 intermediate the ends thereofand dividing the cigarette rests ll into two separate rows is a centraltab M. This tab 14 is bendable to form a hook l5 for engagement with therim of a glass I6, for example, see Figs. 6 and 7. Also, from thematerial of the strip l0 cut in from the opposite edge intermediate thecigar rests I2 is a trapezoidal shaped tab IT. The tab I1 is bendable toform an extinguishing device for cigarettes, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.The snuff-out fin is curved upwardly to more efficiently serve to putout the cigarettes when desired and to provide a wedging action on thecigarette end.

In addition to the foregoing, there is cut from the material of theblank to one side of the tabs I6 and IT, a third tab 18 of specificshape, proportioned and positioned to serve as a cigarette ash separatoror dropper when it is folded outwardly at right angles to the strip 10,see Figs. 1 and 2. The free end of the tab [8 is curved to form a yoke19 to effectively separate the ashes from the cigars and cigarettes.

The blank l0 of Fig. 4 may be readily formed into the rest asillustrated in the other figures and prior to folding may be packaged insealed containers, or envelopes suitable for carrying in a vest pocket.When opening the package the blank, if it is to be applied to a glass,is folded so as to have a spread greater than the chord of the mouth ofthe glass at the diverging ends opposite to the apex of the fold. Thiswill assist in mounting and act as a spring to provide for a snug fit,see Figs. 6 and 7.

As shown in Fig. l the apex of the rest has a fiat surface 20, whichfits flush against the interior side wall of a receptacle when the hookI5 is engaged over the rim. This surface 20 has a steacbling effect onthe mounting.

The several tabs and their respective functions are apparent from thedrawings and the structure of each tab is specially arranged to providefor eflicient action. For example, tab H which forms the extinguishingfin structure is curved upward sharply to extinguish by means formcigarette rests H and cigar rests [2, reof a wedge-action, and tab I8 iscurved into 3 yoke 19 to conform to the cigarette at the lighted ashend.

In actual use whether the rest is applied to a tray or glass or usedseparately, the V-form of the same provides means for supporting varyinglengths of cigars or cigarettes as they become burned shorter andshorter. This arrangement has a safety factor and assures having an everready rest regardless of the length of the cigars and cigarettes to beplaced thereon.

Another use shown inFig. 3 for the rest is as a stall for a pipe,numbered 22. This keeps the pipe from capsizing and dumping itscontents.

7 What I claim is:

1. A smokers appliance formed from sheet.

material having a substantially V-shaped plan 7 form and having meanswhereby the appliance may be supported upon a flat surface by the loweredges of each arm of said V, the armsof said. V

being of substantial height and having "a pair' of oppositely disposedscalloped edges with plane surfaces intermediate adjacent scallops oneach edge, said plane surfaces providing spaced point contact with theflat supporting surface and means to support a cigar or cigarette inpairs lower portion of the apex of the V has an inwardly and upwardlydirected portion adapted to extinguish a cigarette or cigar and one ofsaid arms of the V has an inwardly struck in and horizontally disposedportion adapted to separate ashes from a cigar or cigarette, saidextinguisher, ash separator and the inner face of the other arm of the Vbeing adapted when the same is placed upon a flat surface to support thebowl of a tobacco pipe,.the stem of said pipe being disposedsubstantially along the axis of the V and directed away from the apexthereof.

JAMES J. HARKINS.

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